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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Max Rubin
Max is the author of Comp City, first published in 1994, with an expanded second edition published in 2002. In this groundbreaking book, Max exposed techniques even non-counting players could use to get an advantage over the casinos by exploiting weaknesses in the casinos' comp systems. Max's inside information came from his years of experience in the industry as a dealer, pit boss, and casino manager. Max still does consulting work for the Barona Casino in California.
The initial manuscript for Comp City included advanced comp-hustling techniques that could be used by professional card counters, but the editors at Huntington Press decided to delete this section from the book in order to appeal to the wider market of recreational players. These excluded portions were published in Blackjack Forum in June 1994, and can be found now in the BlackjackForumOnline.com Library.
In the mid-1990s, he started hosting the Blackjack Ball, a secret annual event for professional players, where he serves as Game Master as many of the top pros compete for the Blackjack Cup and the title of World's Best Blackjack Player.
Now, as a host of the Game Show Network's World Series of Blackjack, Max Rubin has become one of the most visible public advocates of professional players.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tommy Hyland
Tommy started playing blackjack professionally in 1978 while still in college. That was also the year he started his first informal "team." He's never looked back. For more than twenty-five years, he has been running the longest-lasting and most successful blackjack team in the history of the game. He and his teammates have played in casinos all over the U.S., Canada, and the world. He has used big player techniques, concealed computers (when they were legal), and had one of the most successful "ace location" teams ever. He has personally been barred, back-roomed, hand-cuffed, arrested, and even threatened with murder at gun-point by a casino owner he had beaten at the tables. Every year, the Hyland team players take millions of dollars out of the casinos. And even though Tommy has had his name and photo published in the notorious Griffin books more times than any other player in history, he continues to play and beat the games wherever legal blackjack games are offered. He has also fought for players' rights by battling the casinos in the courts.
Despite his fearsome reputation, Tommy is polite, soft-spoken, and always a gentleman. He is as loved by players as he is feared by the casinos. In an interview conducted by Richard Munchkin in 2001, Tommy said, "If someone told me I could make $10 million a year working for a casino, I wouldn't even consider it. It wouldn't take me five minutes to turn it down ... I don't like casinos. I don't like how they ruin people's lives. I don't think the employment they provide is a worthwhile thing for those people. They're taking people that could be contributing to society and making them do a job that has no redeeming social value."
Monday, January 18, 2010
Edward O. Thorp
Edward Oakley Thorp is widely regarded, by professional players as well as the general public, as the Father of Card Counting. It was in his book, Beat the Dealer, first published in 1962, that he presented his Ten-Count system, the first powerful winning blackjack system ever made available to the public. All card-counting systems in use today are variations of Thorp's Ten-Count.
When Thorp's book became a best seller, the Las Vegas casinos attempted to change the standard rules of blackjack, but their customers would not accept the changes and refused to play the new version of the game. So, the Vegas casinos went back to the old rules, but switched from dealing hand-held one-deck games to four-deck shoe games, a change that the players would accept. Unfortunately for the casinos, in 1966 Thorp's revised second edition of Beat the Dealer was published. This edition presented the High-Low Count, as developed by Julian Braun, a more powerful and practical counting system for attacking these new shoe games.
In 1961, Thorp and C. Shannon jointly invented the first wearable computer, a device that successfully predicted results in roulette. Thorp has an M.A. in Physics and a Ph.D. in mathematics, and has taught mathematics at UCLA, MIT, NMSU, and U.C. Irvine, where he also taught quantitative finance. For many years Ed Thorp wrote a column for the now-defunct Gambling Times magazine. Many of these columns were collected in a book titled The Mathematics of Gambling, published in 1984 by Lyle Stuart.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
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Friday, January 8, 2010
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If your air conditioner system is blowing hot air rather than cool, the refrigerant gas may have leaked out, you may have a clogged capacitor, or the air conditioning blend door possibly stuck. Whatever the cause of the trouble, the air conditioning system requires immediate service. Turn the system off.
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You are able to cool the vehicle interior by putting the respiration control in the "vent" position and/or giving the windows.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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The engine can either be mated to a good old 6-speed manual cog box or to a 6-speed automatic slush box that comes with paddle shifters. The rear wheel drive coupe that is also fitted with a limited-slip differential is treated to a bulged hood as well as reworked front and rear fascias. It also has 19-inch alloys that are shod with Michelin PS2 tires.
The CTS-V Coupe also has a Magnetic Ride Control system with two modes to choose from including Tour and Sport, fat Brembo stopping power (6-piston up front and 4-piston at the back) and more. Interior wise, you will find microfiber finish for the steering wheel, gear shifter and for the seat inserts while the the centre stack, centre console and door trims are finished in Obsidian black.
Potential buyers can also drive home with an exclusive new Saffron color and sportier Recaro seats fitted with pneumatic bolster controls in the seat cushions and backrests. The Recaros are also 14-way adjustable. More information will be revealed once the Cadillac CTS-V Coupe hits the stand at Detroit.
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Monday, January 4, 2010
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
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